Temple of Bleh

No guest this time, just Jim and Beardo catching up. They cover: Where the Roadrunner documentary is at, and why chasing down original pressings matters Collecting production memorabilia, and a £1,500 Deftones shirt Dan's plans to promote gigs in Brighton, and the case for matinee shows Jim's hypothetical label: no touring, more albums, licensing to indie games Slipknot's secret poster...

Beardo's away, so Jim ropes in his mate DJ — who has seen a few clips and otherwise has no idea what this podcast is. Which is fair, because twelve minutes in Jim admits he may not actually like music. He just likes the pub and the paperwork. So: why Slipknot "left" Roadrunner but the logo is still at the bottom of the new single. Why Anthrax should be doing for the East Coast what Möt...

[Beardo is echo-ey for the first quarter of this episode - calm your tits] Jim went to Brutal Assault. Beardo went to Beyond the Gates. Neither of them wants to talk about the bands. Instead: 5G across a fortress for five days, toilets with a traffic-light system, a wristband that means you never queue for a pint, and a round that came to £3.91. Then the harder question — why the UK can't do a...

Tony Boden put on death metal shows in Brighton — four mates each risking £500 on a Tuesday to get Nile through the door. Twenty years on he's at Out Of Line in Berlin: booking, promoting, some A&R, some management, and teaching music export at Berklee. He tells Jim and Beardo how it actually works. What an agent does that a promoter doesn't. Why your dashboard numbers don't predic...

Part Two of our Earache Records deep dive — and this one went off-script. We sat down with Al Dawson (Earache US) to fact-check twenty years of label history… and then founder Digby Pearson, who it turns out was one of two people watching the stream, texted his way into the call — bringing an announcement with him: a new signing he describes as "one of the biggest pop producers in the world&#3...

Get yer tinfoil hats ready - we're discussing Earache's transition from Grind to Grandad.

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@beardodoom Documentary banter is about 53 minutes in. Sorry for the audio - the podcast version will be normalised.

Ducking out the Bullets and Octane rehearsal studio to guest host this episode, Gene Louis spills his passion for drumming with Modern Drummer founder and CEO, David Frangioni.

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State of play going forward.

https://store.decibelmagazine.com/collections/books/products/the-scott-burns-sessions Scott and David pop by to discuss their new book ‘The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987 – 1997’, and take a stroll down memory lane.

https://wearesovereignband.bigcartel.com/ Laura pops into le ToB for distinctly millenial discourse.

https://www.msk.com/attorneys-Eric_German Eric pops in to do Bleh's favourite thing - engage in extremely long form conversations about the commercialisation and elevation of outlier cultures and heavy metal music. :)

https://ipecac.com/ Marc stops by to talk about his extensive career in music, the challenges of the modern day industry... and we also talk a little bit about Roadrunner, as is standard.

Michael joins ToB to talk about his time at Roadrunner Records as Head of Sales.

http://www.escapethefate.com/ Rob takes a pew to discuss ETF's newest album - Out of the Shadows. Check it out now!

In which I also spill beer on my keyboard, like a dick.

Matt and Joel join ToB to discuss the possible resurgence of Nu-Metal, and their own experiences of the movement.

​  @alltheprettythingsofficial  Logan drops in to discuss the upcoming alltheprettythings record, starting a band in your 30s, and the various triumphs and challenges within!

https://www.thunderflix.com/ Thunderflix is the home of on-demand streaming content dedicated entirely to metal. In this chat we discuss the journey of Samuel's career from working at Sony to launching his own streaming service. Check out Thunderflix now at the link above!

@ingested @the_slam_king @sean-ingested Jay and Sean from Manchester's Ingested talk the business of being a band, post-pandemic and post-Brexit touring, and their past lives in the workforce.